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"The essence of all beauty I'll call Love." ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

..."was an extraordinary woman who fiercely opposed the slavery on which her family's fortune was founded, while struggling with lifelong illness. She was incredibly well-read, though according to her husband and fellow-poet Robert Browning she was "self-taught in almost every respect", and became the first female poet ever to be considered for poet laureate..." More